At 17.19 -0500 01.14.2001, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: >The FSF surely wants Perl to be under a GPL compatible license (and, >(GPL|SOMETHING) is always GPL-compatible, by default). I don't think >the FSF has ever expressed a desire that Perl be GPL-only. In fact, the >FSF has a policy of encouraging everyone to always dual-licensing >(GPL|Artistic) for Perl modules, to encourage uniformity, and avoid >licensing confusion for those who use lots of Perl modules. I think it is for compatiblity, not uniformity (perhaps you are using them somewhat synonymously). >(Indeed, it is quite unfortunate that there are so many modules on CPAN >that have chosen Artistic-only or GPL-only.) I think it is unfortunate that anyone would think someone else's choice of license is unfortunate. :) -- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://osdn.com/
- Re: Why modifing the Artistic lice... Chris Nandor
- Re: Why modifing the Artistic ... Bradley M. Kuhn
- Re: licensing issues Kai Henningsen
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- Re: licensing issues Dave Rolsky
- Re: licensing issues Russ Allbery
- Please stay on topic (was Re: lice... Bradley M. Kuhn
- non-licensing issues ? Nick Ing-Simmons
- Re: licensing issues Simon Cozens
- no one is asking for Perl to be GPL-only (was Re: l... Bradley M. Kuhn
- Re: no one is asking for Perl to be GPL-only (w... Chris Nandor
- Re: no one is asking for Perl to be GPL-onl... Nathan Torkington
- Re: no one is asking for Perl to be GPL... Chris Nandor
- Re: no one is asking for Perl to b... Nathan Torkington
- Re: no one is asking for Perl to be GPL... Bradley M. Kuhn
- Re: no one is asking for Perl to be GPL-onl... Russ Allbery
- Re: no one is asking for Perl to be GPL... Chris Nandor
- Re: no one is asking for Perl to b... Bradley M. Kuhn
- Re: no one is asking for Perl ... Chris Nandor
- Re: licensing issues Ben Tilly
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